Pilots account, among others. Quote:
Catching a film capsule in midair after it was ejected from a CORONA spy satellite was like reeling in a fish, says retired Air Force Col. Tom Sumner.
"It was easy," says Sumner, one of the commanders of a clandestine Hickam task force of C-130s and helicopters assigned to catch the items in flight.
I understand that the early spy satellites did not have CCD's, but only Cameras, and they'd drop the Films to earth (reentry and all) and those would be caught in flight by a modified plane, developed and looked at.
That was with Slide Rules and stuff, no serious computers then, and no helicopters, I think. Why is it hard today?
Quote: "A special feature of the Discoverer Program was that the satellites were to eject capsules after a certain number of orbits. The capsule was supposed to reenter the atmosphere and release a parachute so that the capsule could be recovered. Specially modified aircraft were fitted with two long booms which extended from the aircraft and had a rope stretched between the tips of the booms. If everything went according to plan, the rope would catch the shrouds of the parachute of the de-orbited capsule."
from http://spacecovers.com/pricelists/categori es/categ ory_satellites.htm
I have for a few years tried to make myself redundant. I've automated everything I could. I trained people to do what I do, so they can do it better than me. I've done that out of my own initiative.
My Bosses like that, and I get more interesting Jobs than before.
I guess it's different if you are made to do it, because you probably won't have any more choice.
If you don't care for Degrees, you can attend recorded lectures for not-so-much money. The Teaching Company sells these, but only on CD so far. Not too expensive, either, if you buy it on sale.
I've been doing that for two months now, together with stuff from audible.
There are also Xilinx FPGA's in the Rover. Cool thing because they can be reconfigured if you find a bug while the thing is in transit.
Xilinx radiation-tolerant Virtex(TM) FPGAs are being used in the "main brain" of the rover vehicle, controlling the motors for the wheels, steering, arms, cameras and various instrumentation, enabling the vehicle to travel about the planet.
They also controlled the Pyrotechnical stuff during landing.
Some USB Flash memories allow Password Protection. Is there Linux support for this feature? A Manufacturer says it only works on Windows, but I find it hard to believe that noone has used that.
I have a Datahand -- it's a device that is built to fit your hand. Each Finger rests in a well, there is a button you can push down, one forward, backwards, left and right.
No need to peck keys, just move fingers.
The best thing is that the control, shift, alt etc keys are controlled with your thumb. I've had it for 3 years now, and I love it.
Here's a picture http://www.datahand.com/images/proiitest. jpg
By storing the Data in open formats, and link them with recordings, it should be possible to preserve the languages and their unique history.
I am working right now with LingoTeach and a US university to add a Native American language that is almost extinct to the Free LingoTeach Database, so that future generations have the choice to revive it. Can't say more here, because we are still working out details.
Any help is of course welcome. http://www.lingoteach.org
But the Educational implications are way underrated. If there is homework, and you do it on your laptop and it's multichoice, the Teacher could look at the Homework due this week, see what's not understood, and help the Students understand this in the lesson.
The ordinary feedback is way slow (student brings homework, attends lesson, teacher can apply his knowledge only one week later. So, until you really know something it takes up to 3 weeks!)
If the Feedback loop can be shortened with technology, that'd be way cool, and this wireless technology puts the required infrastructure in place.
Now we just need open source tools, maybe like liblearn.
This is good, but why not just have more packages?
Free Software for Schools is the way of the future. It is a good business model for that purpose. Payback in 20 years, like all good or bad things in Education.
I also think it would be useful for teachers to FDL their Materials. No need for all the teachers to reinvent all the materials.
With a.ogg enabled iPod and LingoTeach you could make custom language.oggs files (like, replace those expensive language learning tapes) and listen to them on the way to wherever!
I have not seen many apps that actually create or come with gpl'd.ogg files (except rippers etc.).
I am thinking there should be more content like
<shameless plug>
LingoTeach, a free language teaching tool that comes with 800 recorded sample pronounciations, and teaches English, German, Spanish and Chinese.
LingoTeach will soon create your own customized language tape or CD. So if you had a portable.ogg player, you could listen to GPL content on the go!
</shameless plug>
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Quote: Catching a film capsule in midair after it was ejected from a CORONA spy satellite was like reeling in a fish, says retired Air Force Col. Tom Sumner.
"It was easy," says Sumner, one of the commanders of a clandestine Hickam task force of C-130s and helicopters assigned to catch the items in flight.
Why is this hard?
i es/categ ory_satellites.htm
I understand that the early spy satellites did not have CCD's, but only Cameras, and they'd drop the Films to earth (reentry and all) and those would be caught in flight by a modified plane, developed and looked at.
That was with Slide Rules and stuff, no serious computers then, and no helicopters, I think. Why is it hard today?
Quote: "A special feature of the Discoverer Program was that the satellites were to eject capsules after a certain number of orbits. The capsule was supposed to reenter the atmosphere and release a parachute so that the capsule could be recovered. Specially modified aircraft were fitted with two long booms which extended from the aircraft and had a rope stretched between the tips of the booms. If everything went according to plan, the rope would catch the shrouds of the parachute of the de-orbited capsule."
from
http://spacecovers.com/pricelists/categor
I have for a few years tried to make myself redundant. I've automated everything I could. I trained people to do what I do, so they can do it better than me. I've done that out of my own initiative.
My Bosses like that, and I get more interesting Jobs than before.
I guess it's different if you are made to do it, because you probably won't have any more choice.
It'd be nice if this kind of disclosure would be required by law. (Who had what kind of input into this Document, a Change History, etc.)
I don't think it's necessarily bad if this kind of things happens, but it should be transparent.
I've been doing that for two months now, together with stuff from audible.
Xilinx radiation-tolerant Virtex(TM) FPGAs are being used in the "main brain" of the rover vehicle, controlling the motors for the wheels, steering, arms, cameras and various instrumentation, enabling the vehicle to travel about the planet.
They also controlled the Pyrotechnical stuff during landing.[Disclaimer: I work for this great company.]
Maybe you want a Fog Screen?
It has about 900 words and can teach Spanish, English and German with sound.
It can teach some 15 other languages too, but has no sound. It's fully Unicode based (data and localisation).
Disclaimer: I started this project...
Some USB Flash memories allow Password Protection. Is there Linux support for this feature? A Manufacturer says it only works on Windows, but I find it hard to believe that noone has used that.
Realize that the H is most likely made from natural gas. That's cheapest.
If I write a piece of Free Software, I'll have to pay a Dollar per Year forever, to keep it from going into public domain?
What if the Software has multiple Authors?
It's also done in the US on a regular basis, regulated by the Government
h er/weathermod. htm
c /v20n2/text- 2.html
Licensing:
http://www.license.state.tx.us/weat
History:
http://twri.tamu.edu/twripubs/WtrResr
Weather Modification Association (since 1950)
http://www.weathermodification.org/
http://www.lingoteach.org/#tapes
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I have a Datahand -- it's a device that is built to fit your hand. Each Finger rests in a well, there is a button you can push down, one forward, backwards, left and right.
. jpg
No need to peck keys, just move fingers.
The best thing is that the control, shift, alt etc keys are controlled with your thumb. I've had it for 3 years now, and I love it.
Here's a picture
http://www.datahand.com/images/proiitest
By storing the Data in open formats, and link them with recordings, it should be possible to preserve the languages and their unique history.
I am working right now with LingoTeach and a US university to add a Native American language that is almost extinct to the Free LingoTeach Database, so that future generations have the choice to revive it. Can't say more here, because we are still working out details.
Any help is of course welcome. http://www.lingoteach.org
Yes. That's cool.
But the Educational implications are way underrated. If there is homework, and you do it on your laptop and it's multichoice, the Teacher could look at the Homework due this week, see what's not understood, and help the Students understand this in the lesson.
The ordinary feedback is way slow (student brings homework, attends lesson, teacher can apply his knowledge only one week later. So, until you really know something it takes up to 3 weeks!)
If the Feedback loop can be shortened with technology, that'd be way cool, and this wireless technology puts the required infrastructure in place.
Now we just need open source tools, maybe like liblearn.
This is good, but why not just have more packages?
Free Software for Schools is the way of the future. It is a good business model for that purpose. Payback in 20 years, like all good or bad things in Education.
I also think it would be useful for teachers to FDL their Materials. No need for all the teachers to reinvent all the materials.
With a .ogg enabled iPod and LingoTeach you could make custom language .oggs files (like, replace those expensive language learning tapes) and listen to them on the way to wherever!
I am thinking there should be more content like
<shameless plug>
LingoTeach, a free language teaching tool that comes with 800 recorded sample pronounciations, and teaches English, German, Spanish and Chinese.
LingoTeach will soon create your own customized language tape or CD. So if you had a portable .ogg player, you could listen to GPL content on the go!
</shameless plug>
Now go and ask Apple for an iPod with Oggs!